http://ufdc.ufl.edu/hnccoll Historical Newspapers "Large numbers of historical newspapers are digitized everyyear by libraries, archives, historical societies, and otherorganizations but they remain under-utilized because they arevirtually buried in the web.NewspaperCat, the Catalog of DigitalHistorical Newspapers, was developed to improve accessto this rich primary resource material through one searchabledatabase. The Catalog currently links to over 1,700 freely availabledigital historical newspapers from across the United Statesand the Caribbean with the goal of including as many NorthAmerican newspapers as possible "
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
RONDA'S CORNER
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!
What are you thankful for this year? I'm thankful I'm not a turkey!!!
MARY ANN'S MEANDERINGS
http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2012/11/library-of-congress-primary-sources-and-thanksgiving/ THANKSGIVING RESOURCES
ORDER IN THE LIBRARY GAME
http://web.archive.org/web/20070127034103/http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/s2s/utopia/library4/src/library4.swf
or
http://monarchlibrary.wikispaces.com/OrderInTheLibrary
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/hnccoll Historical Newspapers
"Large numbers of historical newspapers are digitized everyyear by libraries, archives, historical societies, and otherorganizations but they remain under-utilized because they arevirtually buried in the web.NewspaperCat, the Catalog of DigitalHistorical Newspapers, was developed to improve accessto this rich primary resource material through one searchabledatabase. The Catalog currently links to over 1,700 freely availabledigital historical newspapers from across the United Statesand the Caribbean with the goal of including as many NorthAmerican newspapers as possible "
http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/home?_collection=maps Harvard Collection of Digital Maps
http://www.visuwords.com/
Put a word in and see how it relates to other wordsSaw this a website. It is a fun way to play with words.
CURRENT EVENTS
http://www.lhvlc.com/news.html
CNN <http://www.cnn.com/>
London Times <http://thetimes.co.uk/tto/news>
MySA.com (SA Express News/KENS-TV) <http://www.mysanantonio.com/>
NBC News <http://www.nbcnews.com/>
New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/>
Wall Street Journal <http://online.wsj.com/home-page>
Washington Post <http://www.washingtonpost.com/>
Newseum offer the front pages from 876 newspapers in 88 countries, withlinks to the websites.http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp
PBS News Hourhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/
An incredible series of photo essays of current events around the world:http://boston.com/bigpicture/
The NY Times Learning Networkhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/
Other excellent ones:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/
http://www.economist.com/
http://www.propublica.org/
http://www.guardiannews.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/
Also, news search engines that only search approved sources, such as
https://news.google.com/
http://news.silobreaker.com/
Today's Front Pages http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/default.asp
Voice of America http://www.voanews.com/
Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/
Foreign Policy
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005971.html
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/currentevents.htm
NPR http://www.npr.org/sections/news/
The Independent <http://www.independent.co.uk/>